Senior Advisor Reporting Assurance

New Zealand Government Joba; Wellington; On-site; NZD 91,000 - 136,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working culture

3 extra leave days between Christmas &

$400 non-taxable home setup payment

EPA Environment Day

Learning opportunities & EPA Symposium

Maori cultural capability program

Social club and networks

EPA awards

Job summary

The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) in Wellington seeks a Senior Advisor Reporting and Assurance to lead high-quality performance reporting and risk-based assurance across the CME Group. You will design reporting frameworks, turn complex regulatory data into clear insights, and deliver risk-based assurance reviews that assess effectiveness and consistency of CME's systems.

This senior delivery role involves presenting findings to leaders, guiding improvements, and strengthening

Qualifications

• Substantial experience delivering high-quality performance, governance or regulatory reporting.
• Experience designing and delivering risk-based assurance reviews.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to identify trends and gaps.
• Excellent written communication turning complex data into insights.
• Experience developing or improving reporting frameworks and measures.
• Ability to assess evidence against legislation and standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead performance reporting and risk-based assurance for CME Group.
• Design and maintain reporting frameworks and measures.
• Deliver assurance reviews evaluating CME regulatory systems.
• Present findings and recommendations to senior leaders.
• Support teams to implement practical improvements and strengthen accountability.

Skills

Performance reporting

Governance reporting

Risk-based assurance

Analytical skills

Written communication

Reporting frameworks

Evidence assessment

Issue identification

Relationship management

Prioritization

Education

Tertiary qualifications in assurance/audit

Job description

As New Zealand's environmental regulator, the work we do today helps shape the future of our tomorrow.Our purpose | To tatou kaupapaWe are the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA), Aotearoa New Zealand's independent environmental regulator. Our role is important: to help protect our country's unique way of life by looking out for the health of its environment, its economy and its people.Our kaupapa is about making the right decisions based on evidence, matauranga, and science. At the EPA, we encourage big ideas and bold goals.What we achieve today helps shape the future of New Zealand for generations to come.Jump in the waka - make history with us.About our group | Mo te roopuCompliance, monitoring and enforcement is an integral part of the EPA's work to protect the environment and the health outcomes of New Zealanders. Activities undertaken by the CME Group sit alongside decision-making and engagement and are fundamental to the overall strategic direction of the EPA.The Compliance, Monitoring and Enforcement Group helps everyone - from small businesses to big organisations - understand and comply with environmental regulations to help protect communities, the environment and people.We do this through educating, engaging, monitoring and investigating, and taking enforcement action when necessary. This approach benefits the environment, the economy and communities, and means we can focus our resources (including our enforcement powers) on tackling the most important environmental issues.Our multi-disciplinary team of compliance, monitoring and enforcement officers work together, supporting each other to carry out this essential role in maintaining and upholding New Zealand's environmental regulatory regime for the good of all of Aotearoa today, and for future generations.About the role | Mo te tungaThis role is based in our Wellington office. While we're happy to consider work-from-home arrangements, this role is not designed for full-time remote working.As our Senior Advisor Reporting and Assurance, you'll lead high-quality performance reporting and risk-based assurance work across the Compliance, Monitoring and Enforcement (CME) Group. Your work will provide senior leaders and governance groups with clear, evidence-based insights into performance, regulatory outcomes, risks and opportunities for improvement. You'll design and maintain reporting frameworks, measures and products that turn complex operational and regulatory information into clear conclusions and practical advice. You will also lead the design and delivery of agreed risk-based assurance reviews that assess the effectiveness, consistency and quality of CME's regulatory systems, decisions and practices.This is a senior delivery and advisory role. A typical day could include preparing a performance or governance report, analysing trends and explaining their implications, designing and delivering an assurance review, policy, standards or agreed requirements, presenting findings and recommendations to leaders, or supporting teams to implement and monitor practical improvements. Working across the organisation, you will connect reporting, assurance and continuous improvement to strengthen accountability, organisational learning and regulatory performance.About you | Mohou akeYou will be an experienced reporting and assurance professional who can work with complex information, apply sound judgement and communicate clearly with senior leaders and operational teams. To be successful in this role, you will bring:substantial experience delivering high-quality performance, governance or regulatory reporting in a complex organisationdemonstrated experience designing and delivering risk-based assurance reviews, audits, evaluations or other structured assessmentsstrong analytical skills, including the ability to assess data quality, identify trends and gaps, test assumptions and draw well-supported conclusionsexcellent written communication skills, with experience turning complex operational, technical or regulatory information into concise insights and practical recommendationsexperience developing or improving reporting frameworks, performance measures, assurance approaches or quality systemsthe ability to assess evidence against legislation, policy, standards, procedures or other agreed requirements, and to document clear findings and recommendationsexperience identifying systemic issues, monitoring agreed actions and evaluating whether improvements have achieved the intended resultconfidence providing independent and constructive challenge, presenting findings and influencing senior leaders and subject matter expertsstrong relationship management skills and the ability to work effectively across professional and organisational boundariessound judgement and a disciplined approach to accuracy, evidence quality, information integrity and professional documentationthe ability to manage competing priorities and deliver high-quality work with limited supervision.Experience in a regulatory, public-sector, audit, risk, evaluation or compliance environment would be an advantage. Relevant tertiary or professional qualifications in assurance, audit, evaluation, data analysis, public policy, risk or performance reporting would also be beneficial.What's in it for you | Nga ahuatanga kei a matouThere are extra benefits to working at the EPA:flexible working culturethree additional paid leave days between Christmas and New Years in addition to four weeks' annual leave$400 non-taxable payment to help you set up working at homean annual paid EPA Environment Day to support the community with environmental initiativesin-house Maori cultural capability building programmelearning opportunities, including the annual EPA Symposiumactive and lively social club, and diverse groups and support networksEPA awards recognising individual and team effortSalary range$90,801 - $136,201 per annum (midpoint $113,501).This is the full salary range of the band, from 80% - 120%. Appointments will generally be made at or below the midpoint of this range, depending on skills and experience.How to apply | Me pehea te tuku tonoComplete the online application form and submit your CV and a covering letter.Please note: your covering letter is an important part of our assessment process. Please highlight how your experience relates to this role, and why you applied. Tell us about you, your values and/or whakapapa.View the Position DescriptionFor more information, please contact [e-mail] or check out the careers section of our website www.epa.govt.nz/careers.We are open to supporting inter agency secondments. If possible, please discuss the prospect of joining us with your current manager, before submitting your application. (delete if inter-agency secondments are not applicable to the role)Applications close | Ra KatingaSunday 9pm, 25 October 2026We will review applications as they are submitted and may begin our selection process prior to the end of the application stage.